skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious about this as I have loved ones with T2D.

What makes this work groundbreaking? It seems like one doctor talked about how at his practice he started telling people to go low carb and noticed they were improving.

But his data doesn’t compare the 27% of his patients who opted in to the low carb diet to those who chose another option.

The low carb diet has been around for a while? Has there not been a RCT looking at how it works for treating diabetes?

He makes an argument on why RCTs aren’t so good that is unconvincing to me.

> However, when it comes to actual clinical implementation, RCTs have a problem. So many variables have been removed that the studies no longer represent real people leading ordinary lives outside of a tightly controlled trial. For example, in our National Health Service (NHS) clinic, very few patients with hypertension do not have a weight problem. Many of them are also on drugs for joint pain, reflux or depression. This is why the results seen in RCTs often do not roll out into real-world, clinical practice. For this to occur we need interventions that have a high degree of ‘external validity’—approaches for that better represent the ‘ordinary’ people who populate our clinics. Away from the carefully controlled conditions of clinical trials, results can be very different in the messy, complex world of everyday general practice.

I noticed that he mentioned a RCT on the low carb diet showing good results and read it, but it seems to be p-hacked. They don’t even mention the mean change in weight between the two groups, but only the percent that achieved a 5 or 10% reduction in weight at some point during the study. The also said that 55% of patients lost weight and 45% gained weight.

https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/bmjnph/6/2/326.full.pdf
Pretty sure Nuclear outperforms wind Turbines as well.

Less habitat loss aka lower footprint. Higher MW per acre.
Current world culture indeed! At least, current internet culture. https://i.imgflip.com/1iofxx.jpg
Limiting itself to reversible operations gives some mathematical niceties, but also locks out a lot of things.

When I did something similar, I was thinking about perfect hashing, where the set of inputs is known ahead of time. The usual approach uses a constant array, but I wanted to - in particular, if the inputs are already small integers, if I could compact them further (obviously this is possible: hash -= hash > > gap_index). I sat down and wrote out a list of ... probably 100? ... primitive operations (some of which are admittedly redundant with each other, but which are useful thinking of separately). And then I got bored and never did anything with the project.
So long as you're willing to pay enterprise subscription prices for both Office and Windows with no volume discount, single-user subscription licensing for Windows Enterprise is exactly as easy as subscribing to Office 365:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/e3

(click "Try free for one month >", enter an email not already associated with a 365 org, and note that, under "Company size" in the resulting sign-up form, the first option is "1 person")

AFAIK, non-subscription licensing is still as much of a hassle as it's always been — volume licensing, minimum purchases, partners — and the page for a base Windows Enterprise subscription without Office offers "Contact Sales" with no listed price as the only purchasing option.
Regulated industries just require saving of communications. It seems like maybe that should be the standard.
Isnt a sewer system one of the first indicators of a civilization? What does the collapse of that sewer system indicate?
Certainly in the UK there are personal implications for both employees and company directors when breaking certain laws — I have in mind the Bribery Act 2010, which takes an absolutely scorched earth approach to bribery.

Hard to see a reason not to apply that to discoverable communications of public companies too.
> The Van Allen Belts are two torus-like regions of trapped solar energizing particles that protect the atmosphere. The mass of the Van Allen Belts is 0.00018 kilograms. The masses of other parts of the magneto- sphere (ring current, plasmasphere, etc) are not widely estimated but are less dense than the Van Allen Belts. The mass of one second generation Starlink satellite is 1250 kilograms[7], in which all of the mass will become conductive particulate in 5 years during re-entry demolishment and will be added to the lower ionosphere for an indefinite time. Thus, the space industry is adding enormous amounts of material to the magnetosphere in comparison to the magnetosphere’s natural level of particulate and this is forming a layer of artificial plasma dust in the meteor ablation zone. Due to the conductive nature of the satellite material, this may perturb or change the magnetosphere. A depletion or change of the magnetosphere could subsequently have an impact on the atmosphere.

lol
Modern German buildings are mostly concrete blocks/CMUs with concrete subfloors and wood mostly used to carry the roof. But of course that's a somewhat recent development, sometime in the first half of the 20th century. Before that there was a lot of brick with wooden floors, and before that either stone with wooden subfloor or wooden frames filled with clay.

Of course this is somewhat region dependent, and wood is definitely making a comeback again
Unsurprising, but I'd still totally buy a Superfest glass set with this in mind. I've owned glassware that was both fragile and prone to exploding into jagged particles, and it wasn't very cheap, either.
Vastly more expensive. Leaves 95% of the fuel unburned & extremely dangerous for thousands of years.
Neat. Maybe in ten years I'll actually be able rely on it existing in code I write!
Eventually these models will need to run on mobile devices, so commodity desktop GPUs are a good stepping stone. Alexnet / Caffe got traction because they could be run on commodity desktop machines. Then a few years later phones could run object detection etc.
if (for the sake of argument) the words dog and wolf and fox have jointly evolved in an apparent way over time, phonetically and morphologically, from proto-indo-european to modern descendent languages, and so have some other words like grapes and manger and cry and villagers, and these modern cultures have similar but different shared stories about dogs in mangers, foxes and grapes, and crying wolf so the villagers will come, and the differences between the stories across cultures just so happens to be in concordance with the evolution of those words, I'd say that is evidence of a shared origin for the stories.

I don't think you are showing much imagination about one would investigate such an idea.
USA, China, Europe, everywhere i have been to...

while moving out at the end of a lease was a possibility, it was never suggested that it was the expectation. on the contrary. generally the expectation was that we'd stay. most landlords we met favored long term tenants.
Unfortunately your logic is incredibly naive… it ignores the fact that (a) the money behind pumping oil is partly due to the plastics industry itself, (b) that creating plastic already burns fuels and releases emissions, and (c) that plastics are horrible for our ecosystems for reasons other than pure carbon emissions accounting.

It’s sad to see someone having been on HN for so long having such a myopic view of things.
Related, macOS has a similar url schema:

x-man-page://man
LLMs blow away traditional compressors because they are very good predictors, and prediction and compression are the same operation.

You can convert any predictor into a lossless compressor by feeding the output probabilities into an entropy coding algorithm. LLMs can get compression ratios as high as 95% (0.4 bits per character) on english text.

https://arxiv.org/html/2404.09937v1
It was an explicit choice they made to have this manufactured in-house, to _enable_ that tight feedback loop.

Far from a hard lesson, it was one they designed the company around.
How bad is the interference that it might drive customer complaints about AM audio quality?
Also that was not the big one. The Christchurch earthquakes were from previously unknown faults.

The _big_one_ is supposed to be the Alpine fault because we've got the entire country on two continental plates.

Wikipedia says

"The last major earthquake on the Alpine Fault was in about 1717 AD with a great earthquake magnitude of Mw8.1 plus or minus 0.1 The probability of another one occurring before 2068 was estimated at 75 percent in 2021"
Do you think that should extend to recording some or all meetings at a company?

A group of executives meets. Should that meeting be recorded, even if it’s not a “hybrid” meeting and entirely happened in person?

A group of engineers meets. How about that one?

This seems like a hard issue. If the court creates a precedent here, I expect any sensitive discussions that might have any sort of future liability will just go back to verbal conversations (if allowed), and then aren’t we back to where we are today, with no record?
The point is to inform potentially ethical landlords on the direct effect of their choices.

This is more begging for empathy than anything else...I understand how that does not help the bottom line...but it also does not "force" anyone to do anything.
Requires no new laws...nor does it violate them through collusion.
Do you mind if I ask why you added "lol" to the end?
used an exploit to get vpn working on router...
vibes, mostly
Bandwidth in part.

AM is more spectrally efficient than FM, and with synchronous AM receivers, you can get noise rejection that is near FM.
my corp encourages using slack and said they’re going to purge stuff a couple years old.

I guess we’re entering an era of come at us, fed bros. Iron Mountain is… empty.
As I asked elsewhere, please don't be snarky. Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was distinguishing between fundamental human rights and state entitlements.

I don't think laws in Finland or New York defines reality in all places and times. If you want to talk about reality, this means that people get a cot in a bunkhouse with a roof over it. These laws dont entitle people to own houses or live in other peoples property.
Do you have any idea how much it would cost for the government to distribute portable AM radios to everyone? This law is way less expensive and it's good enough for most use cases.
Definitely not as evil and inexcusable as the genocide they've been perpetrating for the last 70 or so years.
I'd wager that even under that definition most city houses in Europe house more than one family. At least in continental Europe, I am not so sure about Britain. But most of Europe doesn't have extensive single family home suburbs in the way the US has.
1) The guidelines are against changing the title at all.

2) "Just asking questions, bro" is a form of editorial. And you can make statements in a leading way, as you did in this title.
Which raises the question, is there a blog | twitter account tracking datacentre decommissions | revamps with related hardware expected to be released to second market for people that want good deals on X year old then bleeding edge gear?
As long as you're not a target:

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChTelRTP.ht...

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/foniks-oak11.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiretapping
I sincerely hope one day disney will officially release the original versions of the star wars trilogy with the original sound mixes in them.
Under 18 U.S.C. § 151 "Concealment" is obstruction of justice, and almost certainly illegal in this case.
There is a wide body of legal precedent on the topic, for example moving an email to the trash does not count, but "delete forever" (called "double delete" in the opinion) does.
Have your chat setup to autodelete does not get you out of that.
Especially when they have well documented how they only instructed to do that for legally sensitve topics.
It's weird writing in the article to include that.

In the article this comes from a completely different argument in a completely different point against a MS argument that Google has violated the Sherman act in the same way MS did.

The quote is from Google attorney who pointed out that all the companies that had signed exclusive deals with Google had testified that they chose Google because it was the best.

It doesn't seem to have anything at all to do with the chat history argument.
Yeah, I remember as a kid with a Cheap stereo and an antenna consisting of maybe 5ft of thin wire dangling from it being able to pick up reasonably clear AM transmissions from as far away as St Louis, Chicago, and NYC… and Inlived in almost-coastal NC. Especially at night you could really pull some stuff in.

FM by comparison is effectively line of sight, so with a practical broadcast antenna the upper limit is 40 or 50 miles.
Dumb question, but why don’t they just use a single more highly-curved mirror rather than a series of 3 bounces?
Google records chat by default. But it appears they had a policy if they were going to discuss something that could look bad if subpoenaed that chat recording should be turned off before discussing it.
Perhaps Switching in the inverters of the EV will generate harmonics that are in the 540-1700khz AM range. Pulses of current in a wire between inverter and motor radiate fields which are then picked up by AM radio antenna. Because AM is amplitude modulation it is more susceptible to interference by a signal on the same frequency, whereas an FM station uses a band of frequencies to encode the information instead of the magnitude of a carrier.
Guessing
The government doesn't ignore illegal immigrants. There was recently a massive fight to keep them in the census, for example. Democrats and career govt officials wanted to keep them.
The ones with 77 80 83 sound mixes
> They didn't ask employees to destroy evidence but to avoid retaining evidence in the first place.

It certainly sounds like destruction. The words are written, then the words are encoded as text, stored, and sent, and then at the end, discarded.
Like the institutions doing that consider themselves shackled by legality.

Get real.
From the propublica about this last time, there was a lot of statements like this that stuck with me:

> “Initially, it was very hard for executives to accept that they could operate at 94% or 96% and achieve a higher NOI by increasing rents,”

Based on how multifamily operators refer to the software, it sounds like it was what they were doing before, just supercharged automation.

But this was part where it seemed like the algorithm made a leap, that the optimal trajectory wasn't max occupancy.
My experience is that the expectation is that people will stay longer, not for the rest of their lives.
America wants AM radio everywhere, Norway wants DAB radio everywhere. Strange.
The camera on a $20 phone is pretty crappy.

College students rarely have a drawer full of older devices in their dorm room.
You got a job, did the job, got recognized and promoted for doing a good job… and did it all without adding needless complications to the project just to stroke your own ego and say you implemented it with feature X.

How is this bad?

I had a guy on my team who we all thought was amazing. He always knew the newest tech and tools, he’d spend his nights and weekends learning all the stuff. Once he left it was complete hell to maintain. He used all these unnecessary integrations, which meant more points of failure, more language hopping, and multiple learning curves for seemingly simple things. He also re-implemented custom version of systems supplied and maintained by other teams in the company… which meant more learning curves and less support… again, with no real benefit other than it helped him learn. His code was also hard to read, with horrible variable names (var1 - var14) or needless abbreviations that required an Enigma to make sense of.

We have completely rewritten some of the things that need to stick around, and others are being subset. What we have left is much less complex and easier to maintain. Nothing is hidden away in systems no one really knows about.

It’s never good with your technical ambitions come at the expense of your team and what you’re building. It sounds like you were able to do it the right way, even if you didn’t mean to.
What are the pros and cons of this compared to Johnny-Five?

http://johnny-five.io/
The argument being made is that Google execs switched over to Signal when they wanted to discuss the crimes they were committing.

They weren't always using Signal. They had many thousands of emails and other communications that were preserved and used as evidence.
I don’t buy this at all!

Zero calorie sweeteners by definition cannot cause insulin responses.

I can easily verify this by using my families blood glucose monitors before and after I’ve had a diet soda. I’ve done this several times and I have zero increase in blood glucose levels from a Diet Coke. It actually goes down since time passes between me starting the drink and finishing it.

The obsession from even purportedly good doctors with trying to find reasons to vilify anything that might taste good while not spiking glycemic loads is horrifying to witness.

I’m extremely upset, especially as someone with two diabetic parents and a history of diabetes. Both parents are diabetic because they’re fat as hell.
I think most people can turn off their chat history too? And indeed having a policy of always turning your chat history off for sensitive conversations is unlikely to be sanctioned unlike in this case.

(Google didn't destroy chat logs, they just had history off for them)
Now you can find the same technology being used to create Gorilla Glass, Ceramic Shield, and other hardened glasses.
If the chat is E2E encrypted this isn't really the case. There is no storage.
Is the default to record all audio conversations in the office? No.

Is the default to record all chat conversations? Yes.

Then Google enacted a policy to have employees turn off the recording of chat conversations if they were going to discuss certain topics.
MS had yet to fully stabilize that lead a full decade after they had won the os platform standard for ibm compatible pcs. A platform standard moat goes way way beyond a brand advantage.

Azure, while significant, has no similar monopoly to support OpenAI. Do you really see a structural advantage to openAI beyond the Microsoft products integrating it?
I love that we're also remembering to take less scoped in to see a wider view. I wonder how many times they will complete the full sky survey. Will there be enough to provide a timelapse from multiple surveys, or will it take the entire scope to complete the full sky?

I find some of the timelapse of various objects quite fascinating now that we've been recording observations long enough. Seeing the movement around SagA* is amazing. Just the other day, we saw Cassiopeia A over a couple of decades. Some part of my brain knows things are constantly changing in the universe, but at the time scale it seems strange things are noticeably different within our own lifetimes.
I felt the same way, it is almost as if they have a blog-generating AI prompt that says something along the lines of "make the subheading a provocative counterpoint".
I think we should rebrand Walpurgisnacht as, “Boba Nacht”. Or maybe “Bubble Tea Nacht”? I don’t know what the equivalent German would be lol
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Source: Thuc. 5.89, justification for Athen's invasion of Melos, 416 BC.

The full quote is even more brutal:

"We shall not trouble you with specious pretences—either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us—and make a long speech which would not be believed; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
Just another of a long list of Great Filters.
Obviously extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I just posted hoping that more knowledgeable people than me can comment.
It’s 189 sensors from two different manufacturers built in 9-sensor rafts, which are tested before integration into the full focal plane, which is then tested again.

Then you can do pinhole images before eventually integrating in with the larger assembly.
To me, it's crazy that we're doing a lot of weird stuff with global implications in the hands of an unaccountable corporation. If I were a random nation state, I would start taking down those satellites for a sport.
First, attempt to build a $10 billion dollar fab.
Boiled animal parts also turn into glue.
Intel is using EUV for Intel 4, which has been shipping in volume since the beginning of the year.
There does seem a big difference between requiring things to be recorded and simply requiring that people don't actively take action to prevent recording.
With AM, any noise is just, well, straight noise as AM is a straight amplitude signal.

FM is a phase modulation scheme, so random noise is largely discarded, as instead you have a phase tracker tracking frequency modulation.

Basically AM will always have noise, but because of how simple it is unless the frequency is being totally trampled on you can get * something* from it.

FM by contrast will have almost perfect tracking with very low audible noise in the output… right up until the PLL loses tracking and you lose it all.
lulz. Easy. Okay. It might be the easiest part of this build (I have my doubts to the accuracy of that), but let's not get carried away with slinging words like "easy" around things that are measured to microns accuracy and took years to build.
Satellites are nowhere near as reliable as AM. Tree cover will block your satellite signal
In a true emergency situation (like if a big portion of the power grid or internet went down) you need some way to communicate with people. This is a no brainer if you care about public safety.
Star Trek shows me lots of devices we'd like. What's your evidence that the device you want EXISTS TODAY (or could exist, given existing technology), but Apple and Google or whoever are gatekeeping it?

E.g. do you think Apple could have released the iPhone 15, 14, 13, etc. in 2007, but held back because Steve Jobs was counting his billions?

Also, maybe you intended "every other year" as a figure of speech, but I buy an iPhone only every four or five years, and my last one was free (to me) with a "commitment" to the very affordable carrier plan I already had. I do occasionally need to replace the battery, but if better battery tech exists, I have not heard about it. Are the Chinese and Koreans complicit in this gatekeeping?

Last but not least, do you work in the tech industry? I used to work for a well-known chip manufacturer, and if we were gatekeeping our chip releases to increase future profits, I certainly didn't hear about it. That reminds me - a key feature of capitalism is COMPETITION. If someone is holding back on building magic devices, the field is open for someone else, maybe you, to profitably build them.
Why not? Pipes and connections can leak? If all were installed at the same time the same way if one leaks likely others will too.
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia etc. etc.
There is storage, it's just that what's stored is encrypted with a key that only the clients possess. A court could very well order the party involved to turn over the encryption keys.
I am a bit fed up with this lad.
Out of the 6 comments 4 come straight from
The wolfram media web socket farm.
Come on guys. Please .